Editorial

Parliamentary debates on the 2019 budget have just begun. The House of Representatives suspended its plenary last week for the lawmakers to focus on it, while the Senate gave its Appropriations Committee two weeks to […]

President Muhammadu Buhari lately hosted members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) over his re-election and spoke frankly about the severe unemployment in the country. The avowal was inevitable because government spin doctors had been […]

Reports that N110 billion losses were incurred in the first three months of 2019, arising from multiple hitches, highlight the unending chaos in Nigeria’s power sector and the imperative of transformation. A report on cumulative […]

It is within the context of the diminished health condition and official performance of the otherwise vibrant and committed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika that we must appreciate the ongoing people’s uprising in Algeria. After two decades […]

The fact that government rarely cares for human beings in this country has diminished any thought of it caring for wildlife that has no value attached to it. If anything, wildlife conservation is a stuff […]

THE struggle by the Organised Labour to secure a new National Minimum Wage, NMW, scored yet another success on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 as the Senate approved the N30,000 agreed by a tripartite committee set […]

After the recent governorship election, nine new governors-elect have so far emerged. The number might increase with inconclusive polls in six states out of the 29 where the March 9 elections took place. Since then, […]

The Nigerian military has come under criticism by international and local observers over its conduct in the 2019 general elections, especially its apparent unprofessional conduct in the gubernatorial elections. The European Union (EU), United Kingdom […]

Legal luminary and the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola, has once again brought to the fore the issue of what the minimum educational qualification for people seeking to be president, […]

LAST week’s collapse of a three-storey building in the Ita Faji area of Lagos in which 20 persons died is the latest testimonial of the constant failure that defines the Nigerian state of affairs. The […]

Current political activities in the country should not take the steam out of a reality that the state of hostels for students in our public tertiary institutions leaves much to be desired. Polytechnics, colleges of […]

Despite contending with widespread poverty and yawning infrastructure deficit, requiring a sagacious financial management for survival, Nigeria still operates an opaque fiscal system that creates room for massive abuse and malpractices. A typical example is […]

It is rather unfortunate that at a time when most people are concerned about poor investment in tertiary education, a development that limits the country’s quest for development, some scoundrels are bent on worsening the […]

IN line with precedents established by his predecessors, President Muhammadu Buhari ignored court rulings (including the verdict by Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos in March 2015) that presidents lack the power […]

What the survey is about The Nigeria HIV/AIDS indicator and Impact-Assessment Survey (NAIIS) was conducted in order to measure the size, distribution and determinants of the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic as well as impact of current […]

LAGOS State appears to be fighting a lost cause against the menace of commercial motorcycle operators. Amidst the 2019 general election tension, these motorcyclists – known as okada in local parlance – went haywire in […]

In an era marked by a significant shift in the traditional concept of womanhood and an increasing presence of women in medicine, law and business, a growing concern that there are few women in Science, […]

The inauguration of a special panel by the Federal Government to probe alleged looting of assets of the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme is a warning signal that all is not well with a programme that […]

Expectations that the 2019 general election will herald a new democratic era might have been dashed. Last weekend’s governorship and state House of Assembly elections were plagued by the snatching of ballot boxes, maiming and […]

A dreadful incident in which a senior police officer only just escaped being lynched while on official duty has once again highlighted the dire security situation in the country and the need to act swiftly […]